With the amount of meat consumed by the average person rising, some are looking at an alternate source to satisfy the growing need: insects. According to the Guardian, the United Nations has started looking at bugs as a potential alternative. According to Professor Arnold van Huis, who authored a new paper on the benefits of eating insects for the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, we are currently in the midst of a "meat crisis."

"The world population will grow from six billion now to nine billion by 2050 and we know people are consuming more meat," van Huis explained. "20 years ago the average was 20kg, it is now 50kg, and will be 80kg in 20 years. If we continue like this we will need another Earth."

Not only are insects an excellent source of protein, vitamins, and minerals, but farming them is also much more sustainable when compared to traditional livestock like cows or pigs. Farming and breeding insects creates 10 times less methane and 300 times less nitrous oxide. Currently, traditional livestock produce around 20% of greenhouse gasses, which are a contributing factor to global warming.

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